CWU Brooks Library Archives - Finding Aids Chemistry, 1960s 16. Child Study Center, 1980s1990s 17. Chimpanzee and Human Communication Dances, 1960s 3. Dorm Life, 1940s-1950s 4. Drama, 1960s 5. http://www.lib.cwu.edu/archive/finding/fa003-04-03.htm
Extractions: Date: February 2005. Date Span: ca. 1940s- 1990s. Size: 6 linear feet. Number of Boxes: Type of material: Photographs, negatives and contact sheets. Physical condition: Images are good; some objects have crop marks, tape and other writing. Arrangement: Alphabetically by subject. Historical or Biographical Sketch: The first student newspaper was published in 1916 as the Student Opinion . In 1927, the name of the paper was changed to the Campus Crier and since 1984 it has been titled The Observer . See page 183 of The First 75 years: A History of Central Washington State College by Samuel R. Mohler (1967). The newspaper is published weekly on Thursdays during the academic year. Scope and Content Note: Container List: Box 1 1. Aerial Photographs, 1950s-1960s 2. Alumni, 1960s 3. Anthropology, 1960s 4. Art, 1960s 5. Art, 1980s-1990s 6. Art Exhibition, 1990s 7. Associated Students of Central Washington University, 1960s 8. Associated Students of Central Washington University, 1980s-1990s 9. Associated Students of Central Washington University Board Candidates, 1990s 10. Automobiles, 1980s-1990s 11. Baseball, 1980s-1990s 12. Baseball, 1980s-1990s 13. Baseball, 1990s 14. Basketball, Men, 1980s-1990s 15. Basketball, Men, 1980s-1990s 16. Basketball, Men, 1980s-1990s 17. Basketball, Men, 1980s-1990s 18. Basketball, Men, 1980s-1990s
The Anti-Communist Crusade And The Rise Of McCarthyism In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Americans suffered from a political and In the 1950s and 1960s, the FBI and the CIA opened people s mail, http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/mccarthy.htm
Extractions: By H. Lanier Hickman Jr. Part 6: Collecting Solid Waste/No Longer Beasts of Burden. This part reviews the evolution of collection from the 1940s - when collection was done on the backs of men and animals - to the highly automated collection of today. Links to previous parts of our series may be found at the end of this article. This short history of collection in the United States from 1940 to 2000 is a story of the evolution of equipment. This evolution was driven by the desire of those in the refuse/solid wastecollection business to collect more materials for less money. Other motives, just as important, were to improve collection equipment to protect the public health and lessen the demands on the work force that traveled the streets everyday collecting solid waste. Regardless of the motives, the evolution of solid waste collection from a horse-drawn, human-powered enterprise to one of machines reflects the rapid technology shift of the last 50 years of the second millennium.
Volume E: American Literature Since 1945 By the 1970s, the counterculture had been assimilated with mainstream us culture; The 1950s and 1960s saw many changes in the world of American poetry. http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/vol_E/welcome.htm
Extractions: Notes After the war, the United States and the Soviet Union expressed their mutually adversarial stance through a Cold War, in which deterrence, rather than direct military intervention or actual combat, served as a primary means. In sharp contrast to the economic devastation and loss of human life of its allies Great Britain and the Soviet Union, the U.S. emerged from World War II in excellent economic shape. Continuity of the prewar and wartime growth and opportunity proved delusory, particularly for female factory workers and African American veterans. The 1960s were a decade of social conflict between conformity and individuality, tradition and innovation, stability and disruption. By the 1970s, the counterculture had been assimilated with mainstream U.S. culture; however, a call to tradition, which emerged not as a return to community and self-sacrifice but as a pursuit of wealth, dominated the 1980s. In response to the challenges of literary theory and the explosive growth of the information age, two literary developments emerged: the nonfiction novel and metafiction.
Extractions: Schedule News/Press Releases Film ... Home PARTICIPANT BIOS: Elisabeth Armstrong has been an assistant professor of womens studies at Smith College since 2001. Her current research focuses on how globalization affects womens political movements. For the past ten years, she has worked alongside the All India Democratic Womens Association (AIDWA) to record their neighborhood, state-based and nation-wide campaigns for womens rights in the face of market liberalization policies propelled by the IMF/World Bank. Her first book R etreat from Organization: U.S. Feminism Reconceptualized was published in 2002. Lauren Berlant , professor of English, gender studies and the humanities at the University of Chicago, works on the nation as an affect world and citizenship as a mode of public (normative, juridical, affective) subjectivity, focusing especially on the United States. She writes across the nineteenth century to the present, looking at the rise of intimacy as the scene for the political, focusing particularly on rhetorics of sentimentality and trauma as the affects that bind national strangers to each other. Her publications include
U.S. Deficit, The Dollar And Gold The us trade deficit, the fall of the dollar and the rise of gold. In the 1970s, as in the 1950s and 1960s, the usA s imports grew more rapidly than its http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/Congdon.html
Extractions: World Gold Council Reserch Study No.28 Professor T. G. Congdon, CBE is one of Britain's leading economic commentators. He was a member of the Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters (the so-called "wise men") between 1992 and 1997, which advised the Chancellor of the Exchequer on economic policy. He founded Lombard Street Research , the City of London's leading economic research and forecasting consultancy, in 1989, and is currently its Chief Economist. He has recently been appointed to a research professorship at Cardiff Business School, where he will be writing a book on The Monetary History of the UK, 1945 - 2001. He is also a visiting professor at City University Business School. He has written a number of books on monetary policy, contributes widely to the financial press, and makes frequent radio and television appearances. He was awarded the CBE for services to economic debate in 1997.
Normalized Hurricane Damages In The United States: 1925-95 It shows that in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s and more frequent and costly landfalls The study by Landsea took place prior to Andrew s landfall in 1992. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/USdmg/
Extractions: Abstract With this normalization, the trend of increasing damage amounts in recent decades disappears. Instead, substantial multidecadal variations in normalized damages are observed: the 1970s and 1980s actually incurred less damages than in the preceding few decades. Only during the early 1990s does damage approach the high level of impact seen back in the 1940s through the 1960s, showing that what has been observed recently is not unprecedented. Over the long-term, the average annual impact of damages in the continental United States is about $4.8 billion (1995 $) - substantially more th an previous estimates. Of these damages, over 83% are accounted for by the intense hurricanes (Saffir-Simpson 3, 4 and 5), yet these make up only 21% of the U.S.-landfalling tropical cyclones.
HS228 Lecture Notes: AI associated with Norbert Wiener and others in 1940s and 1950s had been tried before perceptrons in 1950s and 1960s, but delayed because of the http://www.chstm.man.ac.uk/teaching/hs228_b1.htm
Extractions: HS228 Week 11 Slot 1 1) what is meant by Artificial Intelligence? 2) the emergence of AI in the United States 3) AI in the UK 4) why is AI controversial? The name Artificial Intelligence appeared in the 1950s, but the mechanical modelling of human characteristics has a much longer history: mechanical brains, automata a definition of AI is rather difficult, since it means different things to different people. however: 1) AI is a specialty within computer science 2) AI aims to construct computer programs to model aspects of intelligent behaviour -mostly symbolic aspects sometimes physiological 3) AI involves many areas of study: game playing, theorem proving, cognitive modelling, natural language, machine vision, expert systems, robots, 4) AI uses digital computers: expensive ones: therefore story of how AI got funded is important 5) AI researchers developed list-processing languages : different from the numerically based high level languages of the 1950s: ALGOL, FORTRAN, etc 6) these languages are difficult: learnt through apprenticeship at certain locations like a craft skill During and just after the Second World War there emerged new interconnected areas of research: information theory, Operations Research, cybernetics and computer science
Extractions: Panama Panama Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera On November 18, 1903, Secretary of State John Hay, representing the United States, and Special Envoy Philippe Bunau-Varilla, representing the Republic of Panama, signed an agreement that became known as the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. According to Article I of that treaty, the United States guaranteed Panamanian independence (see The 1903 Treaty and Qualified Independence , ch. 1). With that kind of insurance, the rulers of the new republic did not need to be concerned about developing armed forces. When the country gained its independence, an oversized battalion of former Colombian troops under the command of General Estéban Huertas became the Panamanian army. Huertas and his soldiers had favored the independence movement and had switched their allegiance from Colombia to Panama. The general was named commander in chief of the small army and became one of Panama's most prominent citizens; however, when he tried to give orders to the new republic's first president, Manuel Amador Guerrero, the general was forced into retirement, and the army was demobilized. Although Huertas failed in his attempt to use the armed force as a political instrument, he established a precedent for such attempts. The emergence of the National Guard and its successor institution, the FDP, as powerful actors in domestic politics is inextricably intertwined with the professional military career of Colonel Remón. Born in 1908 to a middle-class family, he studied at the then prestigious National Institute, which served as the training ground for sons of wealthy families. Upon graduation, he received a scholarship to attend the Mexican Military Academy, and he graduated from there in 1931. Because few Panamanian police officers at that time had academy training of any sort, he entered the National Police as a captain. By 1947 he had become commandant of police.
Expert Report Of Thomas J. Sugrue---Section VIII To that end, throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, Dearborn officials vigorously The authors of the Detroit study concluded that whites who endorse http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/expert/sugru8.html
Extractions: Grutter, et al. v. Bollinger, et al., No. 97-75928 (E.D. Mich.) VIII. SEPARATE WORLDS: RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND RACIAL ISOLATION The most stubborn continuity in American race relations has been residential segregation by race. In Michigan, as in the nation as a whole, whites and minorities seldom live in the same neighborhoods. The questions where do you live? and who are your neighbors? are not trivial. A person's perspectives on the world, his friends, her group of childhood peers, his networks and job opportunities, her wealth or lack of wealth, his quality of education all of these are determined to a great extent by where he or she lives. Current Patterns of Racial Segregations Residential segregation is the linchpin of racial division and separation. By segregation, I mean the separation of groups into neighborhoods dominated by members of a single racial or ethnic group. In most Michigan metropolitan areas, as in the nation, the degree of black-white racial separation in residence remains high, despite evidence of shifting white attitudes about race, despite successful court challenges to programs that perpetuated racial segregation, such as Shelley v. Kraemer
H-Net Review: Adam Golub Reviewed by Adam Golub , Department of American studies, The University of Texas at Alice Clarke s Tupperware The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=178641046324331
America: North America Correspondence with us colleagues, 1960s70s Research in Medicine in North America some impressions of a study and lecture tour 1958 http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTL039933.html
Extractions: Gallery Procedures Resources and finding aids Sources Leaflet list Societies and Associations Personal papers General collections RAMC ... Wellcome Archives Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Poynter Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SA/BMA
History 1025 Study Questions 3 What events of the 1940s prepared the way for McCarthyism? The 1950s has been described as the pivot point for the new industrial society and http://www.colorado.edu/history/jones/1025/hist1025study3.htm
Extractions: Professor Jones Department of History Hellems 356, 492-2931 jonessu@colorado.edu Study Guides for Chapters 26 - 32 Chapter 26 Identify some of the major causes of the Cold War (hint: look back at the last couple of pages of Chapter 25 also). What major change did the Cold War represent in the role of the U.S. on the world stage? (See the end of Chapter 25) Discuss the reasons for and against using nuclear bombs in Japan. How did the nuclear arms race affect life in the US for some citizens? Describe how the Korean War got started, and the extent of U.S. involvement in Korea. What were the larger fears that this conflict represented? What were some of the events occurring in African-Americans struggle for civil rights, and how did the Truman administration respond to this struggle? What events of the 1940s prepared the way for McCarthyism? What were the objectives and tactics of Joseph McCarthys investigations in the early 1950s? Discuss the changes in the U.S. Supreme Court that occurred during the Eisenhower years. Considering what you have learned up to now about the actions of the Court, how is this particular group of justices blazing a new path?
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation Washington DC. Seven Myths about Literacy in the United States. ERIC/AE Digest. Serious problems exist with reading achievement in many United States schools. However, much of the commonly accepted wisdom about the academic performance of United States students is false. The best evidence we have on the reading crisis indicates that no crisis exists on average in United States reading. The purpose of this digest is to investigate seven of the most prevalentanddamaging myths about literacy achievement in the United States. MYTH 1: READING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES HAS DECLINED IN THE PAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS The best evidence on reading achievement in the United States comes from a national system of examinations established back in the late 1960s by the federal government to determine how United States schoolchildren were performing in a variety of school subjects. These exams, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are important barometers of educational achievement. They are given nationally to a representative sample of United States children. When the test was first administered in 1971, the average reading proficiency score for nine-year-old children was 208, for thirteen-year-old children was 255, and for seventeen year-old children was 285. The results of the most recent administration of the test (1996) revealed that the average reading proficiency score for nine-year-old children was 212, for thirteen-year-old children was 259, and for seventeen-year-old children was 287. These scores indicate that, despite a few minor shifts, reading achievement has either stayed even or increased over the past thirty years.
Extractions: By H. Lanier Hickman Jr. Part 7a: Landfill Gas Odors/Fires, Explosions, and Kilowatts. The evolution of sanitary landfills was reviewed in Parts 2 and 3 of this series. From the review of early literature and interviews with a number of landfill gas (LFG) pioneers and continuing leaders, the author concludes that LFG management in North America had three stages of development: odors/fires, explosions (migration), and energy recovery. Odors/fires and explosions will be discussed in this issue; LFG-to-energy will be discussed in the next issue. Links to other parts of our series may be found at the end of this article. Prior to using sanitary landfills, odors were a common concern at the open-burning dumps in use in the 1940s-1960s. One of the early attributes of the sanitary landfill that added to their acceptance was the effectiveness of early cover in reducing odors. While the open-burning dump was a gas generator, until cover material was used, the major concerns remained odors and fires. Only later did migration become an issue.
CIA's Role In The Study Of UFOs, 1947-90 the major Air Force effort to study the UFO phenomenon throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The 1960s Declining CIA Involvement and Mounting Controversy http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/ciaufo.html
Extractions: From Studies In Intelligence Vol. 01 No. 1, 1997 An extraordinary 95 percent of all Americans have at least heard or read something about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), and 57 percent believe they are real. Former US Presidents Carter and Reagan claim to have seen a UFO. UFOlogistsa neologism for UFO buffsand private UFO organizations are found throughout the United States. Many are convinced that the US Government, and particularly CIA, are engaged in a massive conspiracy and coverup of the issue. The idea that CIA has secretly concealed its research into UFOs has been a major theme of UFO buffs since the modern UFO phenomena emerged in the late 1940s. In late 1993, after being pressured by UFOlogists for the release of additional CIA information on UFOs, DCI R. James Woolsey ordered another review of all Agency files on UFOs. Using CIA records compiled from that review, this study traces CIA interest and involvement in the UFO controversy from the late 1940s to 1990. It chronologically examines the Agency's efforts to solve the mystery of UFOs, its programs that had an impact on UFO sightings, and its attempts to conceal CIA involvement in the entire UFO issue. What emerges from this examination is that, while Agency concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s, CIA has since paid only limited and peripheral attention to the phenomena. The emergence in 1947 of the Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union also saw the first wave of UFO sightings. The first report of a "flying saucer" over the United States came on 24 June 1947, when Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot and reputable businessman, while looking for a downed plane sighted nine disk-shaped objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington, traveling at an estimated speed of over 1,000 mph. Arnold's report was followed by a flood of additional sightings, including reports from military and civilian pilots and air traffic controllers all over the United States.
